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...plot is complex at first glance; but it really doesn't amount to much. Betty Hutton starts out as twin sisters; one who is an ardent Bing Crosby fan, and the other who thinks him an annoying crooner. Bing, as a sobbing singer--genus Sinatraensis--falls for the twin who will have none of him. In the course of action the Waves get both Betty Huttons, Bing gets the sensible sister, and the bobby-sock twin gets left with Sonny Tufts, who doesn't seem to care...
...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...
...women are concerned there are two types--Genus Coed and Phylum Bostoniensis. Boston and New England are chock full of women's colleges. While trends of thought in recent years have been along the line that most of these homes of happy hunting were accessible only by way of automobile, delving and dredging since the recent rationing program have revealed that the railroad companies have laid branch lines from South Station even to Northampton, Norton, and South Hadley...
...including a Cuban revolutionary bit which is a thumbnail classic on Latin American politics. Mencken has heard all the great U.S. exhorters, from William Jennings Bryan on, and it is his considered opinion that none was "worthy of being put in the same species, or even in the same genus, as Gerald L. K. Smith ... a boob-bumper worth going miles to see and hear." Mencken heard Smith speak on the same platform with Father Coughlin and win hands down, despite his opponent's "habit of enforcing his points by revolving his backside...
...without talking about this Freshman Class. Hardly a person in Cambridge, from the teachers at Brown and Nichols to the Physical Ed department on the 'Cliffe, has failed to notice the Class of '46, No one knows quite why, but they're more attractive, noisier, more lively than genus Radcliffe is wont to be. Probably it doesn't prove anything, but this year's average Freshman is 3 inches taller and 1.6 pounds heavier than last season's. That makes here not five by five, as many claim, but 5 foot 5.2 inches tall and 127.7 pounds wide. One reason...